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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.
People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.
I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.
If you call making people smile with 'The Pink Panther,' then I made a contribution.
If a film is not doing well, a record company will not take a chance with the score.
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.
The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.
Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.
I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.
I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.
Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.
Because I was flat out wrong I'm on my knees Begging that you Will forgive me, please
The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.
Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.
The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.
I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.